Swansea Astronomical Society Blog

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

36% waxing, crescent Moon

A tripod mounted Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72 bridge camera at 60x optical zoom was used to image the 36% waxing, crescent Moon. The camera was set to ISO-100 and 1/200s exposure at f/5.9. 109 images, were precisely cropped and registered in Nicola Mackin's AstroCrop software, stacked and wavelet processed in Registax 5.1 with post processing in Photoshop. Click on the image to get a closer view: